Previous DayMark my words
Blog A few weeks ago, I moved the majority of my worldly belongings to the Pink Cottage by the sea in The Village. For some reason I have been labelled The Writer (I might have mentioned this blog)....
RE:The bloody iFone
Blog Comment ebay is littered with unlocked iPhones, though not the new one just yet. About the suit thing, I've heard a rumour that the reason he doesn't wear one is because he could never find one in denim!
Input from a source at Deloitte
Talkback I have now had an email from someone at Deloitte, sounding mildly irritated at our guesswork around Oracle fees. "The implied suggestion is that TfL had to incur a cost to obtain an Oracle license...
Handsets World: Show me the money!
Blog The first day of Handsets World in Berlin is now over. I'll have a story up tomorrow on Nokia's views on open source (interesting, I reckon) but in the meantime, since the people milling around...
Ten tips for preparing a Wi-Fi rollout
Tutorial Taking certain steps in the planning stage of a Wi-Fi rollout can help reduce accessibility and security headaches later on
Rackspace opens wood-powered datacentre
News Rackspace has touted the 'green' credentials of its first European datacentre, fuelled by a wood-burning power station
HP launches new PCs in major product rollout
News The company rolled out 50 new products on Tuesday at a Berlin conference, the largest such product refresh in the Personal Systems Group's history
Shuttleworth talks up app launcher for 'netbooks'
News Ubuntu project founder Mark Shuttleworth has given details of a new app launcher for a version of the OS designed to run on low-cost laptops
Coming soon: HP's EliteBook
Blog I'm in Berlin with HP for its 'Connecting Your World' shindig, the sun is shining, HP's top brass are keynoting and new products are appearing at an impressive rate. Among the highlights is the...
Steve Jobs looks very thin
Blog Although it was good to see that Apple might finally be staging a significant assault on the enterprise with the 3G iPhone, the one thing that struck me immediately from Steve Jobs's latest product...
IT pros back iPhone 3G for business
News Polled in advance of the iPhone 3G's launch, ZDNet.co.uk readers listed the features they think would spur business adoption of the device
RE:BBC threatens iPlayer hackers with mild annoyance
Blog Comment To be fair to the BBC, the DRM issue is not all of their own making, and neither is it due to the BBC Trust. It turns out that the BBC doesn't actually completely own most of its content, and is...
Loopt previews location-based iPhone app
Video Demonstrated at Apple's WWDC 2008, the new app blends social networks with the Maps application, so you can see where your friends are
TypePad demos iPhone photo-blogging app
Video Michael Sippey of TypePad shows off a mobile photo-blogging application for the iPhone at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2008
Apple answers call for iPhone applications
News During his keynote at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Steve Jobs officially announced the upcoming iPhone App Store
Security through annoyance
Blog A close personal friend reports a bloody annoyance. The place where he works decided to tighten up its network security, by forcing all users to change their passwords every three months. As...
eBay shows off auction app for iPhone
Video The new app has a basic front door with options to track auctions you've bid on, and see whether you've been outbid
O2 releases iPhone 3G pricing for UK
News The operator has announced its tariffs for the iPhone 3G, which it will launch on 11 July with an increased focus on business customers
Apple debuts iPhone 3G
Video Steve Jobs reveals the iPhone 3G, with faster download speeds, longer battery life, GPS, a lower price and a near worldwide release on 11 July
Jobs demos GPS on iPhone 3G
Video At Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2008 in San Francisco, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs demonstrates GPS on the new iPhone 3G
AT&T sacrifices profits to snare iPhone 3G users
News The company has negotiated a deal with Apple to subsidise the cost of the iPhone 3G, potentially attracting more users but diluting earnings
The bloody iFone
Blog When Stevie Jobs stood on stage and announced the original iPhone (doesn't that guy have a suit?). I was not the most enthused. Too much eye candy and not enough function was my thinking. One year...
Programmers to get a cut of AOL's revenue
News AIM 6.8 includes interfaces programmers can use to build instant-messaging plug-ins, sharing in related ad revenue
IBM breaks the petaflop barrier
News Performing one quadrillion calculations per second, the Roadrunner supercomputer has parallels with the human brain, says a project team member
Belden snaps up Trapeze for $133m
News The deal will create the largest unified wired and wireless networking supplier in the world, claims Belden
RE:BBC threatens iPlayer hackers with mild annoyance
Blog Comment If I understand things correctly. The problem is really when it comes to playing fair with those who paid for the content in the first place. The TV License payers. The vast majority of whom are UK...
Suppliers ease up on licensing crackdowns
News The head of the Federation Against Software Theft says vendors want to move away from the heavy-handed approach of forcing software audits on companies, towards working more closely with customers
Next-gen broadband 'critical' for economy
News Research by a government advisory body has found the long-term benefits of a high-speed broadband network would exceed the cost of deployment
IT costs snap up quarter of NHS budget
News The cost of upgrading the health service's IT systems now uses up a quarter of the NHS's budget for major projects
iPhone's open-heart surgery on the enterprise
Comment Apple's iPhone 3G is full of updates. The biggest is that Apple now has an enterprise strategy
RE:PCLinuxOS 2008 Gnome on new laptop.
Blog Comment I'm not a big fan of the Gnome desktop, that's why I added KDE. I have discovered one more small problem. I do a bit of song writing and the Rosegarden suite and some of the other music modules...
